Why India Started Implementing Family Planning Practices

By introducing China’s One-Child Policy (Family Planning Policy) in 1979, China hopes to decrease its country’s annual population growth. China has implemented the policy by many different

The Birth Control Movement of 1912 in the United States had a significant impact on Women’s Reproductive Rights. Women in the 1800s would frequently die or have complications during or after childbirth. Even if the woman would have died, they would still have a great amount of children. As the years progressed into the 1900s, the amount of children being born dropped. Because of this, birth control supplements were banned, forcing women to have a child that she was not prepared for or did not want to have in the first place.

* Family planning campaigns incorporating social marketing techniques have been successful in countries around the world. A program in Sri Lanka recently helped avert over 60,000 unwanted pregnancies in a three-year period.

Society today is completely different than it was in the 1800’s, when birth control started to become popular. According to the ebook Birth Control, the public health saw a dilemma, because there was the matter of scientific innovation and consumer protection. The economy was affected by oral contraceptives because it started

In nineteen sixy five under Richard Nixon, the current president, the goverment began undergoing being involved in family planning and putting money to regulating it. At the time this only meant birth control and sterilization methods. It wasn't until nineteen seventy three this included

Family Planning is using contraception. By using contraception, the limit on sizes of families through spacing is regulated and the prevention of pregnancies are controlled. Family planning does not just protect the well-being of women, but also the well-being of communities as well. To increase the chances of healthy babies and planned pregnancies, there are family planning services for people who want education on family planning and healthy families. Successful family planning services should include

The population control ideology led to the introduction of birth control methods within the child bearing populations with the models focusing on budget cutting measures and future plans determinations.

I picked a ridiculously silly subject title for this rather serious post (that is one of the best and funniest Mean Girls quote though). On a more serious note now, I believe that contraceptions and empowerment of women will help with slow the continued population growth. Sex is a natural act for people all over the world. Sadly, not all women are not educated about contraceptions, do not have access to contraceptions, not allowed to use contraceptions and some do not support the use of contraceptions (which is their right). The textbook discusses the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) which "focused on individual rights, especially women's rights, including their right to make reproductive decisions" (410). The conference also discusses the important of educating women and educated women typically engage in safe sex and have more access to family-planning methods. Contraceptions and family-planning is still a prominent topic today in the United States; however, women typically in the middle east and third world countries have no real access to these preventions at all. According to a New York Times article on birth control by Nicholas Christof, "women in Afghanistan, Chad, Congo, Somalia, East Timor and Ugana all have six or more child each, the U.N. says. In rural Africa, I've come across women who have never heard of birth control. According to estimates from the Guttmacher Institute, a respected

American-run institutions regulated the number of births as a way to control population by sterilizing women who unknowing went through with the procedure without adequate knowledge of the entire process. Many, once tuned in to what the whole process was, would have preferred alternate methods of contraception, but after being misled, there was no turning back and thousands of children that were killed, thousands of women who had no opportunity to have another child by a government so engrossed in politics and economics that they were too busy to see any moral wrongdoing.

Around the 1950s, India was the first country to officially establish a family planning program. This program made birth control information to become more readably available. India's government saw big families leading to continued poverty, and poverty hindering economic progress. Just as with China, India saw foresaw that the country would not be able to feed the masses of people, and the country would eventually use up all of its resources and the population would ultimately breed themselves out of existence. Up until the 1970's, the government used no aggressive force to promote the use of contraceptives or sterilisations. They increased medical care and access to hospitals, and provided education for family planning. In the 1970's the government declared India to be in a "state of emergency". Medical workers went out into the slums and poorer regions of India and forcibly sterilised women. The medics were rewarded for how many women they were able to sterilise.

Major progress has been made in curbing population growth. The United Nations Population facts August 2010 states that there has been substantial declines in fertility, total fertility in the rest of the developing world(excluding the least developed countries) declined by about 50 per cent between 1970-1975 and 2005-2010: from 5.0 to 2.5 children per woman. Additionally fertility in the least developed countries dropped by 34 per cent since 1970-1975, from 6.7 to 4.4 children per woman. Bangladesh is exceptional with a reduction of over 60 per cent, from 6.9 children per woman in 1970-1975 to an estimated 2.4 in 2005-2010.

In India, women are being manipulated to stop having children after their second birth. Officials claim that by regulating population and the pregnancies of women after their second child they will be able to empower women by offering them contraceptive choices and child care facilities. In reality, if women do not agree to be sterilized after their second birth they will be

The ultimate goal of the one-child policy was to reduce the fertility rate in order to improve the living standards of the people. The average living standard was intended to increase by having less people to share the country’s resources, as well as diminish the negative consequences of overpopulation such as food shortage, unemployment, overwhelming of public services and lack of housing.

Before reading chapter 8 I had no idea what international family planning really was, and I have a feeling I’m not the only one who didn’t. I believe that if most people knew what internationally family planning was and what it really meant then then there would be a lot more people angry with the decision to stop all funding to UNFPA. This organization does so much for everyone around the world like, advises governments on family planning, reducing poverty, reproductive health, and many other ways. The United States apparently stopped funding this program because it supposedly “supports or participates in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization”. The UNFPA actually posted a statement on their official website denying the claim and stating that “all of its work promotes the human rights of individuals and couples to make their own decisions, free of coercion or discrimination”. I don’t think people or even the president knows how negative of an impact denying future funds to the UNFPA is going to effect the world. I believe that if our president Donald Trump had taken the time to learn about UNFPA and what they stand for then maybe he wouldn’t have stopped all funding. This decision has made not only the women within the United States feel like they don’t have a say in their reproductive rights but, it also makes it look like we don’t care about the reproductive rights of any woman in any nation. The United States not supporting family

First and foremost, the high birth rate in India is the main root of the overpopulation. The high fertility rate is due to the impecunious of the country. To counter this, the nations give birth to more children, hoping that there will be more income resources. Besides, the people count upon that the survivability of their children is low and thus they keep producing more children. Moreover, most of